Sunday, February 21, 2016

This coming Thursday Feb 25th at 9.00am UK time is the latest programme of "In Our Time" on Mary Magdalene with

Joanne Anderson, lecturer in Art History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Eamon Duffy, Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge; and Joan Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at Kings College London.

On the left is Titian's Noli Me Tangere (1541) in the National Gallery. Titian'spicturecentersontheinteractionofthetwofigures.Mary'shandreachestowardsChrist.ThecurveofChrist'sbodyleanstowardsMaryasonehandholdsbacktheclothing.[1]Agardeningimplementframesandcurtailswhatmightbeanupwardmovementofascensionechoedbythetree hemming inthetwofigures.

[1] David Brown, Sylvia Ferrino Pagden, Jaynie
Anderson, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian
Painting (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006) p.128 report that x-rays
of the painting show that the figure of Christ changed from moving left stiffly
to the present dynamic spiral motion.